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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency

Annie Jacobsen

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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency

by Annie Jacobsen
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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency

Secret science shaping war, technology, and tomorrow.

If you enjoy investigative history, this gripping account takes you inside DARPA’s hidden world. Jacobsen blends declassified records and insider testimony into a tense, unsettling narrative. You’ll see how military ambition transformed technology—and confront the consequences.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for History (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency

by Annie Jacobsen
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ISBN: 9780316371667
Author: Annie Jacobsen
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date of Publication: 2016-06-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Politics, History
Related Topics: American History, Political Science, Government, War, Politics, World History, History
Goodreads rating: 4.0
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National Bestseller. A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history of the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the book on DARPA—a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military—and the often frightening results.
 

Secret science shaping war, technology, and tomorrow.

If you enjoy investigative history, this gripping account takes you inside DARPA’s hidden world. Jacobsen blends declassified records and insider testimony into a tense, unsettling narrative. You’ll see how military ambition transformed technology—and confront the consequences.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for History (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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